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3 unusual facts about William Lilly


1660 in poetry

John Phillips, Montelion, 1660; or, The Proheticall Almanack, published under the pen name "Montelion, knight of the oracle, a well-wisher to the mathematicks", a verse satire on William Lilly's almanacs

William Lilly

This was the first of its kind to be printed in the English language rather than Latin, and is said to have tutored "a nation in crisis in the language of the stars".

He then began to issue his prophetical almanacs and other works, which met with serious attention from some of the most prominent members of the Long Parliament.



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